Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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ELIZABETH WEBER, Associate Editor IEANNE CAMPBELL, Assistant Business Manager HAROLD HAMPTON, Sports Editor ETHEL ZAHN, Associate Editor V PEGGY HOTZ, News Editor DONALD WANEK, Circulation Manager The Newspaper Editor-in-Chief The Oracle began its service to the students of Bay View the second Friday of school last September and ended the current year just recently. Cutting short their vacation one week, Marion Marx, Elizabeth Weber, and Ervin Kwiatkowski came back to an unoccupied school so that the first issue might come out as scheduled. With only the main office staff and the janitors for company, these three wrote and gathered news until even the prolific minds of the girls were entirely without stories and leads. With the official opening of school, the announcement came from the teachers in charge of the newspaper campaign, Miss Lane and Miss Watson, that the drive would take on the as- pects of the presidential race. The insignia of each party, the Democratic Donkey and the Re- publican Elephant, paraded the halls, and humorous skits were presented in the homerooms and in the auditorium. Despite the fact that the enrollment had dropped to 2110 students, the school responded magnificently to post the highest subscription total since the boom days of '29, Life returned to a normal pace for Kenneth Barbian, the banjo-playing subscription mana- ger, and Donald Wanek, his genial assistant, for they were responsible for making the cam- paign a success. Everything moved with more regularity, once the semester was well under way. Peggy Hotz and Ethel Zahn gathered news and assigned stories, Elizabeth Weber served as a general handy- woman, Wilbert Evers and Virginia Plennes obtained more ads than the business staff heretofore, Page Twenty-one

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Oracle Editor-In-Chief ...... Organization Editors . . . Senior Editor ......... Assistant Senior Editor . . . V Reporters: Ervin Kwiatkowski William Nelson Marjorie Marten Verna Schuette Dorothy Lewis Donald Wanek Peqqy Hotz Alice I-lelminiak Marion Ellarson Dorothy Weber Ruth Stell Mary Gardner Dolores Knedle Dorothy Bernharolt Sports Reporters: Harold Hampton Marion Marx Michael Stanich Kenneth Niemann Faculty Advisors: Mr. Korn .................. Chairman Mr. Fritsche .......... Ex-Officio Mr. Costello Mr. I. I. Smith Miss Lane Miss Watson Annual Staff .............Elizabeth Weber . . .Peqqy Hotz, Virginia Plennes . . . . . . . . . . .Elizabeth Iaeaer . . . . .lean Olson I I , I RALLY HIGHLIGHTS Quill and Scroll Members: MARION MARX, ERVIN KWIATKOWSKI, ELIZABETH WEBER, ETHEL ZAHNF WILLIAM NELSON, PEGGY HOTZ, HAROLD HAMPTON Top Row: ANN REGIS, DONALD WANEK, VIRGINIA PLENNES

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SUZANNE RILEY, RUTH STELL, GENE IOHNSON, IACK SYVERTSEN, ANN REGIS Seated: DONALD GATES Marion Marx and her staff set new records for typing copy, and Kawai tried to keep track of everything: to get copy to send to the printers, to create headlines, and to plan layouts. The one omnipresent question in the Oracle office was Who has anything to eat? invariably all went hungry. Staying in school ninth, tenth, and even eleventh hours working hard Cplease believe me, they dol resulted in many never-to-be-forgotten, imaginary spreads. But a calm precedes every storm. The storm broke when it was announced to the staff it had eight days in which to turn out the twelve-page Christmas issue. A new glint appeared in the eyes of the business staff as they went about breaking all ad records for previous Christmas issues. A new spirit appeared in the editorial staff as they raced around the halls during the day looking up reporters and then peacefully and contentedly resting their weary limbs and headlining' copy until six o'clock for three successive nights. Another three full days were spent down at the print-shop, reading galley proof, pasting up, reading more proof, and finally send- ing the forms to press. The result was the largest Christmas issue in the school's history, with fancy borders, a picture of the three Wise Men on the front page and one of the benevolent old gentle- man, Santa Claus himself, on the back page, all dressed up in news and holiday sentiment. For the second semester the staff remained al- most unchanqed in its personnel. Elizabeth Weber was promoted to the editorship of the Ammal as a result of her excellent work on the newspaper, and Kwiatkowski was reappointed editor of the paper. I age Twenty-two VIRGINIA PLENNES Business Manager Reading from the Top: RUTH GOETZ, WALTER BORMAN, HAROLD KRAUSE, ANITA ROS- SOW, DOROTHY WEBER, EDITH RISCH, LUCILLE SCHMIDT